diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Chat/EmbeddableChat/useEmbeddableChat.ts b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Chat/EmbeddableChat/useEmbeddableChat.ts
index a081cbcb..0887039a 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Chat/EmbeddableChat/useEmbeddableChat.ts
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/Chat/EmbeddableChat/useEmbeddableChat.ts
@@ -80,9 +80,6 @@ export function useEmbeddableChat(params: UseEmbeddableChatParams, onMessageComp
   // the list growing under an animation or a row measuring taller than its estimate, and reading it as
   // intent is what used to switch auto-scroll off mid-turn and leave it off.
   const gestureAtRef = useRef(0);
-  // The prompt currently in flight, kept verbatim so a stop can put it back in the composer.
-  const lastSentRef = useRef('');
-
   // Latest values for the (once-attached) scroll listener, without re-subscribing on every page load.
   const loadOlderRef = useRef(loadOlder);
   loadOlderRef.current = loadOlder;
@@ -125,26 +122,25 @@ export function useEmbeddableChat(params: UseEmbeddableChatParams, onMessageComp
     );
 
     attachmentManager.clearAttachments();
-    lastSentRef.current = input; // verbatim, not the trimmed prompt — this is what comes back on a stop
     setInput('');
     userScrolledRef.current = false;
     if (textareaRef.current) textareaRef.current.style.height = 'auto';
   };
 
   /**
-   * Stop, and hand the prompt back. Interrupting almost always means "not like that" — you want to say
-   * it differently — and retyping it from the transcript is busywork. The text returns exactly as typed,
-   * newlines and all.
+   * Stop the turn, and leave the composer alone.
    *
-   * It never overwrites: if you've started composing something else while it ran, that wins and the old
-   * prompt is dropped. Losing what you just typed to a stop you pressed would be the worse failure.
+   * This used to hand the sent prompt back, on the theory — carried over from Claude Code's terminal —
+   * that interrupting means the agent never read it, so you should get it back to say differently. That
+   * is not what happens here. The prompt is delivered and read before Escape can land; the transcript
+   * keeps it and the agent answers it on the next turn. Restoring it therefore refilled the composer
+   * with something already sent, and sending it again sent it twice.
+   *
+   * Escape means one of two things — "stop, I'll say it differently" or just "stop" — and neither wants
+   * the old text back. Focus returns to the composer, which serves both.
    */
   const stopGeneration = () => {
     stopTurn();
-    const sent = lastSentRef.current;
-    lastSentRef.current = '';
-    if (!sent || input.trim()) return;
-    setInput(sent);
     requestAnimationFrame(() => textareaRef.current?.focus());
   };